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Dhoni played a game of football with his teammates at the Eden Gardens

Constant rain in Kolkata meant India had to cancel their outdoor practice for the second successive day ahead of the crucial second ODI against Australia at the Eden Gardens on Thursday.

But the relentless showers could not keep MS Dhoni from enjoying a shooting stint with the Kolkata Police. He visited their state-of-the-art range at Police Training School to show what he could do with the gun.

On Wednesday, Dhoni was nominated for the Padma Bhushan by the BCCI. He is now in line to become the 11th cricketer to win India's third highest civilian award. The 36-year-old Dhoni has so far scored 9737 runs in 302 ODIs besides 4876 runs in 90 Test matches. He has also played 78 T20 Internationals, notching up 1212 runs. He has 16 international hundreds (6 in Tests and 10 in ODIs) along with 100 international half-centuries.